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suffix

noun
  1. (grammar) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.

    "The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable"."

    Similar: affix

  2. A subscript.

  3. A final segment of a string of characters.

    "The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra"."

Synonymsaffix
Antonymsprefix
verb
  1. To append (something) to the end of something else.

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